Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 24, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. LIX—NO. 176 4, ' POPULATION 29,919 ENTENTE ALLID TRODPS. HAVE/GAINED NORE POSTIONS OF SAATEG VALUE Continue to Advance, Notwithstanding Increasing Re- § pable'd Paragraphs sistance of the Germans and Bad Weather NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1918 *New York Democratic| Mediators For Cgal State Convention Miners and Magnates ENDORSES THE FEDERAL SUF-|BUREAU APPOINTED BY FUEL ADMINISTRATOR GARFIELD TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS An Army of Upward of 5,000,000 Men CALLED FOR IN STATEMENT MADE BY SECRETARY BAKER Condensed Telegrams Honduras declared war on Germany July 19. e W The use of gas for fuel is increasing in China. A German airplane made an unsuc- cessful attempt to raid Paris. FRAGE AMENDMENT ¥ Storms in many parts of France have caused considerable damage to the crops. FOR PERIOD OF THE WAR CONGRESS WILL DECIDE Bituminous coal produced during the week of July 13 totaled 13,243,000 tons, a record. ins Take Over Seaplane Sta- tions. ‘Somewhere in England, July 23—(By The Associated Press).—American av- Ame; STATE VOTE ON LIQUOR ¥ William Church Osborn is to Remain |Joint Heads of the Bureau stations on the English coast, from which they will do continuous patrol duty over a large area’ of the sea, TURBINE ENGINE INDUSTRY IS UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL Those Under 700 Horse Power Not In- cluded—21 Manufacturers Affected. mination as Long as William Ran-| the Officials of the Fuel Administra- tion and the United Mine Workers. Were | « Beneficial rains will help the major | The - Prevailing Judgment of Sec- G : ; iators today took over from the British| a Candidate For Gubernatorial No-| Named After C A oteaho weneen e Na DAt : : i UNS WAR STORES one of the most important seaplane er Conferences Between | wheat crop. e e e A y YA, Two Americans are b ransom in the Sierra Mexico by bandits. g held for Mountains of CAPTURE MORE PRISONERS, G the. Draft Age Should Be Lowered +5 dolph Hearst Does. —No Suggestion Made. £ ) Midway Between Soissons-and Amiens, General Foch’s Troops Penetrated the Enemy Lines For a Distance of Two Miles, Gaining the Heights Dominating the Valley of the Avre River and the Plains Beyond—South of the The Navy Department announces the arrival of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt in France. Saratoga Springs, N. Y. July 25— Endorsement of the war pblicies of President Wilson, arraignment of the republican management of state affairs under the administration of Governor ‘Whitman, a demand that United States senators from New York support the federal suffrage amendment, and a Washington, July 23.—Creation of a hureau of labor wnich will be charged with the settlement of controveries between coal miners and operators for the period of the war was announced tonight by Fuel Administrator Garfield. At the same time the prinicples upon which the adjustment of grievances Washington, July 23. — Secretary Baker announceq today that on the reconvening of congress he would pre- sent with his request for new appro- priations plans for modification of the draft ages and a ‘“‘somewhat larger military mobilization.” i A report that Germany and Finland had reached a definite agreement reached the State Department. ‘Washington, July 23.—The govern- ment has assumed control of the tur- bine engine industry. Twenty-one Senator Thomas in the Senate de- Ourcq River the Allied Forces Have Reached the Rail- road Line Between ‘Armentierres and Coincy, and Are manufacturers of turbines are affect- ed by the order. Manufacturers of tur- bines under 700 horse power do not come under the government supervi- sion. The War Industries Board will supervise filling of orders for turbines declaration of fifteen principles as to state issues upon which the fall cam- paign will be waged, were dominant notes of the platform presented to the democratic state convention tonight by the resolutions committee. shall be founded were made public, Joint Heads of Bureau. John P. White, former president of | the United Mine Workers.of America, and Rembrandt Peale, coal operator of law. nounced profiteering and legislation fixing a maximum wage advocated The Food Board has sent an appeal The plan concerns the mobilization of a huge American army, probably upward of 5,000,000 men. No announce- ment was made as to whether the draft ages are to be lowered or raised. but it is known that the prevailing judg- “We will asree to no inconclusive|Central Pennsylvania, have been made }g,,"‘?;‘]fm“"*;g‘itxlgguggflhgfj-:lbes 2 et of the secretarys advisers'is to ing Beyond—Southwest of Rheims, Strong Enemy | *Manatactirers have. sgreeq not to|Peace.” _declares the win-the-war of e uran shlen A gy Pressing Beyo o 2 g s e b e platlc . W FHlIbbau L the Tent OF the fue]’ sdminithiratich dnd S R A FISHING SCHOONER . til we have destroyed the German 4 i Vor = irector of e United States Steel B P A . 3 s cess of 700 horse power for either |l Faa A the United Mine Workers > raobs e s ) SUNK BY SUBMARINE. Positions Have Been Gained and the Allied Line Has | o5, of 700 horse power for either autoeracy and, made ‘the world safe | "Secrerary ‘of Labor Wiison and Dr.|SOrPOation are scheduled” to meet cept for ships for the mavy and the | %, democracy. Garfield previously had agreed that all| ;o next week to take action on Advanced Nearly a Mile — In Albania the French and Italian, Troops, Are Keeping Up Their Pressure Against the Auslriam.,@ i S e 3 SO Emergency Fleet Corporation without a permit from the War Industries Board. . Permits for filling of private or non- war orders will be granted only by the board when necessity is shown. The only exceptions to government control The suffrage plank reads: The Suffrage Plank. “We believe in equal suffrage, with- out regard to sex, and we recognize that the present juncture, when our nation is engaged in a great war for equal rights and individual freedom, questions pertaining_to labor in the coal mining industry will remain un- der the jurisdiction of the fuel admin- istrator. Statement of Principles. The, statement of principles,. which Teuton conspirators after this country’s entranc war, to use German reservists to in- vade Canada and Mexico. the dividend. planned, even into the | Four of Its Crew Have Landed at Kenrebunkport, Me. Kennebunkport, Me., July 23.—Four men landed in a dory at Cape Porpoise today reported that their fishing ‘?hooner, the Robert and Richard, of was approved by .union and mine offi- : oucester, had been sunk by a Ger- AR WG] e of turbines rated above 700 horse pow- |is a time peculiarly’ appropriate for | cials, the administrator announced: ;J"%Si““@ffr&? ;:? x?:::e::t b{f\-w:l::'ma" Submarine on Cashe Hank. sivty ‘ o a er are for propelling equipment for|its adoption by the people of the| No strike shall take place pending|Railroad Administration to 33 vents |Miles southeast of Cape Porpoise, at (By The Associated Pregs.y ¥*" |enlarge the American military Pro-|ihe navy and the emergency fleet, and | United States. We, therefore, urge | settlemest of any controversy until the | It was 27 conte eorh ey > o0 08515030 ~g'clock vesterday morning Thé ‘entente allied trbops ,on the | Sramme. do not include land types. Orders for |the immediate adoption by the United ! case has been reviewed and decided by il ; | Other dories were coming in behind Seissons-Rheims salient continue to To Have 2,000,000 Americans. the former may be placed direct and |States senate of the concurrent reso-|him i General von Francois, commander of | (heém, they said. The schooner had gain ground, both on the western side| Tt js now virtually certain that Gen- | delivered. {lution amending the constitution so as| That recognition of the union shall|the Seventh Army Corp‘s has resigned | just stocked up with halibut for the of the battle front and on the south|eral Foch will have at least 2,000,000| This action was taken by the Vyar|to confer the right of suffrage upon|not be exacted except where now rec- r refused the resignation and | | 0Ston market. along the Marne and toward Rheims,| American troops to supplement his|Industries Board, it was said today,|\Yomen. We demand that the United | ognized. ; ’ gave him an honorary post. | The submarine came oat of ths notwithstanding the increasing resist- | allied armies before the present fight- |as a means of relieving the situation senators from New York rep-| That presenit machinery between et watér a few hundred yards distant, ance of the Germams and the bad|ing season closes. Secretaty Baker an- | resulting from the war's demands for | resent their constituents by voting for | miners and operators for settlement of | The War Trade Board has annournc- | weather that is prevailing on the southern part of the line. ‘While the latest gains recorded are not as great, on the whole, as those of previous days, they mevertheless have added positions of strategic value to the allied line for the further pros- ecution of the efforts to clear the ter- ritory of the enemy. In the fighting more prigoners, guns and war stores nounced today the war department's new programme embracing enlarged army appropriaticns, modifications of the draft ages to increase the reser- voir of fighting men ana plans for a larger mobilization of the army than any yet undertaken, would soon be ready for congress. He would give no detalls, but the turbine power. As far as possible the government's orders will be allocated to the war making agencies requiring land and marine turbines, priority on delivery will be given where the requirement is the most urgent. At a meeting tomorrow with War Industries Board officials representa- the The state i ed a Propo; firage amendment.” sues enumerated includ- hort “home rule for municipali- plank and a declaration for a prohibition question. Business of Opening Session, The convention at its opening ses- sion today did little except organize, te-wide referendum on the federal | disputes must first be invoked. That in all such settlements the fuel administrator will i : That employers relinquish the right to discharge employes because of af- filiation with unions. That employers will recognize the right of their employes to organize by peaceful methods that do not interrupt Germai . Lieut. Rene Fon n cially credited wit plane: He ed the addition to the" export conser- vation list of silverware containing no | tin, dried peaches and prunes. ck in the last three days destroyed in aerial combat eight is now offi- h 56 victories. e men said, and sent shell over the hooner's bow. The crew promptly < to their boats. Then the raider sent a boat's crew aboard the schoon- er, apparently took only her papers, placed a bomb and lefi her. A few minutes later an explosion sent the vessel to the bottom. o other ships were in sight at the time. The submarine et was last seen : , d clals ta- | g i production, J . ¢ | S0ing south on the surface plans probably aim at getting under | tives of the four principal turbine|jisten to a “keynote” speech by the v PR A President Wilson commuted to life 2 Pl 4 s have fallen into_the hands of the|p, 708 DNV, B BF BCLHOR URCe | anufacturers will | determine on | temporary chairman. former Supreme Zauine anjonalle penalty | €lause |imprisonment the death sentence im- |, 2OL0r boafs went out to search for American, anch;nd Br::ish trooDs. | 2 chort of the 5,000,000 figure widely | further steps to meet the war de-|Court Justice J. Augustus Kellor~ of | cluded In all|posed on Private Albert E. 3 e Penetrate Enemy Line. discussed in congress when the sub- As a diversion, the French, to the ject was last under consideration mands on the industry. Plans to determine priority as he- Glens Falls_ and adont a vigorous res- olution pledging “whole-hearted sup- jto allowing agreements as a condition precedent increased prices to op- gard by court-mart Beaure- al for deserting. {to arrive had rowed for sixty miles art and were thoroughlv exhausted. 5 . 2 UP- 1 erators, & & ~ e Eook northwest, midway between Soissons | there. tween the navy and army and the|port and confidence in President Wil- ,”‘]’at ;’%‘zre e Government order for 99,560,000 '}'I\: vr‘:';]x:flvrogwagal_;git‘ :to{c‘ke_dfl oung and Amiens, have delivered a blow German Plan Upset. Emergency Fleet for steam and elec- | son’s strugsle to make the world safe{ oy shall continue and tl:él Whare WSt pounds of bacon and 134000,000 pound Bounds: of imiTebnsn® ST e dodes against the German line which has| The fighting in the Aisne salient,|trical turbines. it is understood. now |for democracy and repudiating ever: i3 e un- A . been productive of excellent results. 4 Striking on a front of about four miles, General Foch's troops pene- trated the enemy lines for a distance of about two miles and gained the heights deminating the valley of' the Avre river and the plains beyond. Fif- feen hundred Germans: were captured by the French. The nmc al commu- nication fssrns - A oy ATal of- refers to this fightifig: as a local operation, where the whole German offensive scheme has been upset, if not definite- ly defeated, by tHe bold strategy of General Foch, has opened mew possi- bilities. There is increased need for haste, in the opinion of officials, in the getting of full American man pow- er ready to supplement the efforts that appear now to be taking shape to- ward hurting the enemy back all along the front and beginning the advance that will end only when victory has are being. worked out through S taries Daniels and Raker and Cha man Hurley of the shipping board. It was said today that the mneeds of the navy and the Emergency Fleet are being met as rapidly as they arise. INCREASED TAX ON NET INCOMES OF CORPORATIONS re- Has Been Agreed Upon by the House truckler with our country’s enemies who strives to extenuate or excuse” German crimes and atrocities, and v, has sought to sow dis- s our allies, or who now E alize by election to pub- lic office the Jatent treason, whose to- tal annibilation is the most: pressing need of the hour.” The resolution was offered by Sam- uel Seabury, a former judge of the ion and non-union men work together the continuance of such i shall not be deemed a grievance. Dr. Garfield made it clear that in all settlements, whether he is called upon to intervene or not, the principles, pro- visions and practices laid down in the Maryland and upper Potomac settle- ment of last May, f.shall -be.accepted by employers and employes. GENERAL DEGOUTTE, THE Field, Bristo N. of canned meat for the army was re- ceived at the stock yards in Chicago. | Lieut Culver, flying to Belmont| Y from Philodelphia with is not of planes the mail 6,000 feet high at 90 miles af hour, said he felt the extreme heat. Production in the United States of tvpe of fighting i been discontinued after tests showi that the machine h military ad been recalled and she was headed Boston when the submarine inter- cepted her. Crack Schooner of Gloucester Fleet. Gloucester, M: July 23—The | Gloucester fishing schooner Robert and ard, sunk by a submarine yester- tday, was the crack vessel of the Gloucester fleet. She was in command of Captain “Bob” Wharton, who . has { Eobirt bERBrLnls WeHb realsned e long ranked one of the most successful Ways and Means Committes. D e I 0 | * VICTOR OF CHATEAU THIERRY — jor the Gloucester fishermen. Vessel Gérmans P‘_"!"d b T e e . governor. He had éri\at difficulty at E e The New York Produce Exchange | 2nd cargo were valued at $35,000. }ri?\“c? \:g‘efiz::o?srct&etggxd o;(e;?‘e‘ Offensive on Larger Scale. ce:‘{ai‘}g:;:‘olnéagu;; : ::l i‘]1§m913g£ first in getting it before the conven-|!s One of the Most Brilliant of Young |barred the firm of Klopstock & Co., | Second Officer Had Lived in America. Fepe Reports today indicated that fully . nor X the come of | tion, as many of the delegates, know- | French Generals. of 17 Battery Place, New York, from| Portland. Me., July 2 coal Tardenois has pushed further bacK| o half of all ground won by the |COrporations, with provision, however |iny 'his antagonism to William Ran- the floor “during the pleasure of the|steamer Snug Harbor arrived tonight the Germans on both sides of the|Germans in the Alsne salient already | (At only 12 per cent,shall be levied | Goiph Hearst and the latter's candi-| New York, July 25--General De- |board.” {with eleven men of the schooner Rob- T T O e Ve e o | has been torn from the enemy's grasp | of the income distributed to share- | dacy for the sovernorship. apparently | gouette, the victor of Chateau Thier- oA ert and Richard, including Captain yvithstanding flerce resistance, the al- | ung the French, British and Ameriean | 01JeTS; Was tentatively agreed Upon | pelieved he was striving to offer an(ry, who shares with Generals Manzin,| The Municipal Council of Lemburg- | Robert Wharton of the schooner. lied forces reached the railroad line| troops were still pressing on at last | (002Y DY the Mouse ways and means| ani-Hearst resolution. Judge Sea-|de Mittry, Berthelot and Gouraud the | Hungary, adopted a reslution demand- | Wharton said the second officer of the ning southward. to Chateau Thierry, accounts. Mr. Baker scaid today that e heliEvh. that the lower ot fon bury, however, .nnal y was permxt':d. merit of having won the second battle | ing u.nmed{ate peace, based upon the su!\ma:rm[‘ who hqa}’de{l the schooner, Bevosd 4t This' 4d the last reports from General Persh- i distributed wil 2 to read the document, and when its|oi the Marne, is one of the most able |rights of self-determination by the|told him he had lived in America for and pressed on beyond fit. Is ad-| ;> were satisfactory. It was clear, |Sarings distributed will have a ten-:contents became known it was imme- |and brilliant of the young French gen- | people. a number of years and had had a sum- vancé brings the French and Ameri- L B s clear ['dency to break up large corporate | giately adopted ander suspended r St e acl i : PRAE B troops relatively to within seven howev that the minds of officials surpluses and forces the one lon diately adopted under suspended rules. | erals, an announcement given out mer home in Maine since 1896. o P: : : here are engrossed in preparation for . b S All at Sea on Ti here today by the official bureau of | Revolts and mutinies of Czecho-Slavs | —_— miles of Fere en Tardenols and also | (6% 2v® (AEEossed ir Preparation f0r) where it can be reached by the surtax| A il jeket oo ey {ana Jugo-Slavs In Bohemia and Hun- | ENGINE GOLLIDED WITH MEAT i i i il ivi i S. sent e elegates 2 L ight ses- “ 3 sons " e of thé railway line rumming from Ar-| The German offensive ~arch = in)g per cent. state ticket, with the p aiDesaugs (S0 colomain Mtanein | Dot pespatchiANo i mHortent ROkt | y N. Y. mentieres to Fere en Tardenois. rance has rested on two great pillars,| * “While no definite decision was | three-cornered primary fight I S it ol e ? | Engineer C. Elliott Paisley Killed— Tovn of Jaidabine. Rabaptured. one in the Picardy front and the other|reached,” said Chairman Kitchin after | the par The movement béhind i e tontal b B zi 30 1d:a ). Teitke Biook G0 1oe Ao s o | oo " Maroc Tt his been repeatenlly ltoday's sasblon, “it acemed that 4 me. | fred E. Smith continued to gain im- | ;5 Li% Colonian campalens - of ) the | Amo Zimmerian, 130 years old, | Tratks Blocked for Several,Hours. o 3 stated that the pressing home of this i ittee rore ¢ | petus ampai : T ¢ is fro m189) | German, was arrest New York for | = to the east of Chateaw" Thierry the|mighty pincer movement, threatening 3;‘2:,3:,@?{0,:‘::[ fi‘,’e‘“fl“,‘;; (.f:n‘lo ,‘..,d‘g‘i,‘,' Lf l)‘irlhl'ele:c\r::n ;To‘:-gsg:i ml?xirn'n jto 1895, in Madagascar from 1895 to|ins 1 on a} Danbury, Conn, July 23—FEngineer town of Jaulgonne, from which the|both Paris and the Channel DOrts as | bet sasome, with ther teduior te 9% | through the distribusion of homqredy | 1895, in China in 1900 and in Morocco | street car and sentenced to six months | C. Elliott Paisiey of Hopewell was Americans retreated during the Ger-|it progressed, has heen the German|per cent. on the amount distributed io|Of pamphlets and privately in confer- | FOM 111 to i = ; in prison. silled, two cas of beef destroyed and madn’:fme_nsx'\;‘e, has beetx;‘ nggn\éli're‘ object from the first day the battle | shareholders.” |ance, and Wiiliam Church Osborn, | o z 3 :llvinwn' nd like Petain, he TH 5 ¥ Vi‘h ; ;n uch tr]a‘l\ t "0 up at ‘West Pawlinz, v 3 t e e southern pillar of that arch has|mony at committee heari junder consideration by the “committee | -j2P " SO0ne and e = ’ ; PeNes Julg s 8 | pushe a8, me : h:(ewlse gxa:)e ;i‘dvarnclehd '.;n;lr iine "3 now been gravely weakened. Its of- | many corporations keep a cert of fifteen,” announced that he would ! i gmnrv \'Ih(: ar, e i e | the Spanish occupation for the Belgian | in ol on. Palsley’s fireman on the the north bank of e Marne and|fensive value is gone. By desperatp ef- | tion of their annual profits i (he busi- |remain a -candidate as long as Mr. | alile of ilette in November, ,[Church at Las Pinas, Rizal Province, | pusher was severely scalded also. It twithstandi the violence or th forts the Germans are seeking to pre- | ness instead of distributing the en Hearst did. no matter who the choice :‘ .‘-Ule 4“(14?(11 : s aean | hes beeniocumlatend are \Dr: o lm}:rs @At e e de b e “¢lvent it from collapsing altogether, | profits to stockholders, who would have | Of the convention might be. ured 4,000 prisoners; 134" guns and v after the wreck. German counter-moves. crushing whole divisions of their best|to pay a eurtax on it. S 82 machine zuns in a few hours. He| The censorship board has ruled that| The light engine, bound east from Advance Southwest of Rheims, troops in its fall. E % A WEALTHY RUG DEALER mmagding a whole army—the ar- | no outgoing communications written in | Pawling, \\':s hit by the meat train, 7 % 3 g = cluding American troops, which | German would be passed hereafter, porceeding east, just’ before the Likewise, southwest ef Rheims, British Troops Nibbling. MASSACHUSETTS ORDERS i : including imerican 5 where the British are fighting with g [ SHoTBNDISCHARCEDIBORTER | Staretiine the French, have been captured and the allied line strong enemy positions Meanwhile, British troops are nib- bling at the enemy In Flanders and CONSERVATION OF SUGAR| Killed as He Extended Hand to Bid mans {rom the Ourcq to the Marne and tcok Chateau Thier- to prisoners of war. with the exception of communication pusher was E to have taken a siding. ch locmotive was smashed up and i g i Bate iOBenoLaR Bt GEi) iy both tracks strewn ‘with beef and ¢ o i elsewhere to the north with unvarying owls cn Tables Good-Bve to the Murderer. e e Germany has arranged with the Bol- | broken parts of cars. Wreckers were e i Themin Just north of Montdidier, the in Public Eating Places. e ILLEGAL DETENTION OF shevik Government for the protection |sent from several points to expedite s 3 s have struck a new blow, the e New York Julv —Gullabi Gulben- contested the advance, but the Brit- ish and French gamed the advantage full significance of which is not vet Boston, July 23—Open sugar bowls JAMES 8' ATTR 1S CHARGED of the German consulate in Petrograd. the clearing of the right of way. Re- 1 Tt h ot the | tables 4 % Iian, a wealthy Armenian rug dealer, German soldiers dressed in civilian at- Sp?niihihlyllordlhe colliSion has néu iti icting oy | clear. Its sugcess, however, was stirt- jon the tables in public eating piaces|with a shop on Fifth avenue, was shot i 7 e tire will make up the guard. vet been placed, an investigation by ::;’u."':m:"?;;’,f" ,,}i';m‘,';?;m';;,d“";‘vfi ling, even from the meager accounts|in Massachusetts were ordered cli o Lild date tala® by & verior in | 9ninat Fwo bicn oud a Woman, Al — railroad officials being set for tomor- gups. The British alone captured 300 | 50 _far received. nated for the duration of the war Dby | his employ. who escaped. Serope Gul- French, at Moulins, France. An appeal for the immediate opera- |"°" o determine that point. o B D= Some observers believed the new |the state food administration today.|benkian, nephew of the murdered man : o .| tion by the Government of Cape Cod iR The counter-attacks of the Ger-|Attack was a minor operation, design- |Individual portions must not exceed|and a member of the firm, was dan- | oulins, France, July 23—The trial | (07 PY e COVEIIERT OF BR800 P00 TEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS mans. contimae fo be delivered with|cd to pin German reserves to that|one ounce per person per meal. rerously wounded. ofAndreioh Piscase 214 | fuel administrator of New Fngland, 10| WHO ARE PRISONERS OF W. -+ ¢ - front, just as the British nibbling has| _In a statement issued tonight Henry | Mr. Gulbenkian was known among|Raymond Barrau, on the charge of | Tt Sreaaie ERS O AR great violence and with heavy gun | 4 ! B . e it ¢ 3 n 5 | {legally det e Slater. of | Director McAdoo of the railroad. e and machine sun fire behind tham, | Pinned enemy forces there when they |B. Endicott, the food adminis:rator. s fellow Armenians as a philanthro- | 1 1eg2lly detaining James Slater, ol 5 Z 2 Phere they are forced to give sround | Were badly needed in the south. Others | urged housewives to buy three neunds | pist. and he is reported to have given | \ebster. Mass, began here this morn- . o amés of Six Connecticut Men Are the. Germans are leavins mumerous | S2W deeper strategy behind both the [Of substitutes with five pounds of gra- (more than $1,000000 to Armenian |iN8: The a d are charged by the| The revocation of the general im- in the v o British efforts in Flanders and the|{ham flour, and until machine gun nests in the open to har- aes their enemies. The Germans apparentlv are fear- ful that the constart nibbling at’ their lines eéast of Amiens by the British foreshadow an early attack, and the are sending a rain of gas shells ov this séctor as a precaution. The British on various sectors of the front in France and Flanders continue daily tv make slight gains against the ene- my and take prisoners amd machine guns. In Albania both thée TFrench and Tralian troops are keeping up their French and Bri Picardy. So far as future Agierican partici- pation goes, General March has al- ready disclosed to members of com- gress the fact that offensive opera- tions against the enemy on a larger scale had been expected to be under- taken later in the vear. That gener- al sciweine, it is thought, accounts for the new plans of the war department, since what is being devised now is in preparation for the spring campaign of next year, in all probability. sh local thrusts in August to use more graham and whole wheat flour in bread, with a cor pondingly less amount of white war | bread. FOUR DEATHS FROM | HEAT IN NEW YORK. | Police Report Scores of Prostrations— Hottest July 23 in 17 Years. New York, July 23.—Four deaths and scores of prostrations from the heat were reported to the police to- the middle of | chi arities and for the care of Armenian refugees. The porter, who had been discharged but who had been given a letter of recommendation, shot the merchant as he extended his hand to bid him good- bye. The nephew was wounded when he went to his uncle’s aid. REPORTS OF FAMINE IN PERSIA ARE CONFIRMED Motor Trucks Are Conveying Grain From India to the Stricken Land. | police with having induced Siater, in the course of an extended automobile tour, to go to a chateau where he was held for many days' with little food and heat. Slater, the police charge, was compelled to sign checks while under detention. Barrau was the first of the three accused to be examined. He denied baving been engaged to guard Slater. Andre Biscaye on being questioned said that he entered Slater's service as chauffeur in 1913. BOSTON IS SWELTERING 11, N. J. port license covering the importation of commodities from Canada and New- foundland which was to become effec- tive July 20 was postponed until Aug. An unidentified aged woman was killed and three men injured when an Erie railroad train of the Greenwood division struck an automobile at the railroad crossing west of Little Falls, Chairman Hurley of the Shipping List. Washington, July ?3.—Names of ten American soldiers who are prisoners of war in Germany were announced today by the war department as fol- lows: At Camp Darmstadt: Corporal John 1. Murray, Falls Village, Conn.; Priv- ates Tony Bichum, 38 Grove street, New Britain, Conn.; Chester K. Cra- vatt, Ocean Grove, N. J. At Camp Limburg: Private Wil- liam O’Sullivan, Forestville, Conr Camp not known: Corporal George M. Williams, 340 South Green street Board renewed his request to Congress b South (G . ; ; ; ) ! < ; seph H. pressure against the Austrians. In night as direct_results of the hottest| xew York 5 ; UNDER HEAT WAVE. | for legislation which would prevent the | Henderson, - P the latest reports from Rome and | MORE THAN TWO BILLION July 28 New York ‘city has 'experi- | yn woret siponty s farrnration of = .| building or enlarging of shipyaras|Brown, 1718 Richmond Werrace West Paris considerable gains arc credited enced in seventeen years. Beginning Z 2| Two -eaths and Fifteen Prostrations ‘o the allied troops. SHELLS FOR SMALL ARMS with 78 degrees at 7 o'clock this morn- and the cabling of $100,000 to purchase without the sanction of the Govern- New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.; w d Yesterd ment Charles W. Knowlton, Fairfield, ’ ih, the merouty mounted steadily an- | Sin in India to be transported to are. Riaported Yestordny. ; Conn.; Joseph 2. Lagassey, South i Have Been Delivered to Army Sin R o = e '~ the hunger-stricken lan Y motor £ street, ristol, 'onn.: andolph S. WHOLE TREND OF WAR U, 8. Entorod the Wan 7|43 oclock, when it touched 92. There | trycs. was announced here today by | _Boston, July 23.—Two deaths and| Thomas Nelson Perkins, a Boston | Sicwart, Plainville, Comn.: John W. ARG TR , & . I heverel ity % hen it|iho American committee for Armen- |fifteen prostrations from the heat were |jawyer was appointed an assistant to By the Cffensive Which General Foch Has Started. Washington, July —With proba- biy not much more than a quarter of a million American troops engaged in the present battle, but with virtually 2 millions others either in France or l"1sfening across the ocean to join in t:o fight. Genera] Foch has been able to tarn the tables on the ememy and a blow that has changed the ©~'s trend of the war. \Heials here, while fully recogniz- in~ the facter that the Americans are today only a comparatively small part * the vast forces the supreme com- mwnder is us'ng in working out his tegic designs, realize the fact that Washington, July 23.—More than two billion shells for small arms have been delivered to the armysince the United States entered the war, said an announcement today by the ord- nance department. Up to July 13, 2,- 000 small arms of all varieties and 82,540 machine guns had been pro- duced. Machine =un_production for the week ending July 13 was 6,681. 37 GERMAN AIRPLANES PUT OUT OF ACTION YESTERDAY e Many Tons of Bombs Dropped on German Concentration Points. Paris, July 23.—Thirty-seven German airplanes were put out of action by French and British airmen yesterdav. OBITUARY. Eldon W. Sanford. New Haven, Conn., July 23.—Eidon ‘W. Sanford, a member of the medical faculty of Johns Hopkins university, died at his home in Centerville, near | here, today from blood poisoning, su- | perinduced, it is understood, through | accidental inoculations while studying for the government as a part of war work the development of blood poison- ing in guinea pigs and pigeon He had the first indication of self-inecu- lation a week ago. This eruption w: met and overcome apparently. A few days ago there were additional symp toms and Sanford, informing his y ents of his belief that the poison would kill him, made his preparations for | n and Syrian relief. A message tell- ing of the famine conditions was re- ceived from members of the commit- tee’s Persian commission now in Hong Kong. Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, head of the commission, and three other members are on their way to England for a consultation with the British authori- ties before joining the eleven other members in the Persian Gulf. TEXTILE INDUSTRY IS THREATENED BY LABOR Unless Manufacturers Grant -Demands For 15 Per Cent. Increase. Pawtucket, R. I, July 23.—Thomas McMahon, vice president of the Unit- reported today, which was the hottest of the year. A temperature of 98 was registered by the weather bureau at 4 p. m. Weather bureau officials held out no hope for relief until tomorrow night, when showers are predicted. At 6 o'clock tonight the mark was 96 and suffering was intense until 10 o’clock, when the temperature dropped to 87 under a light breeze. Thousands sought what relief they could get in public parks. PAPER MAKERS ON STRIKE AT GLENS FALLS, N. Y. Degree With Company Over the Pay- ment ‘of Bonuses. Glens Falls, N. Y., July 23.—Nearly the secretary of war for purchase and supply to act during the absence in Europe of Bdward R. Stettinius, second assistant secretary of war Three American naval aviators, who had been missing in their dirigible balloon from their base at Chatam, Mass.. since last Friday, reached Hali- fax, N. S. They reported they had lost their way in the fog and landed at Summerside, N S. SALES OF WAR SAVINGS AND THRIFT STAMPS Have Increased Rapidly During the Month of July. Jones, Oxford, Ala. SUCCESSFUL IN FOURTH ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. W. F. Ball of Shelburne Falls Used a Bed Sheet and Hook. Boston, July 23.—A man who regis- tered at a hotel here as W. F. Ball of Shelburne Falls, Mass., succeeded to- day in what was evidently his fourth attempt in five days to commit suicide. Using a bed sheet for a rope, he hung himself from a hook. In a diary found in his pocket he stated that Friday night he took poison in a hotel in Lynn. This attempt was recorded as ‘“unsuccessful.” On Sat- urday night he tried ‘anether poison, e ed Textile Workers of America, stated | 700 employes of the Fort Edward Mill Washington, July 23.—Sales of war wl.{ich made him “very sick.” e American army, going forward in|Four captive balloons were burned |death. Medical aid brought no relief |tcday that unless the manufacturers|of the International Paper company |savings and _thrift stamps have in- o= Sunday night,” the diary reads, a comstantly increasing stream, is the {and many tons of bombs wexge dropped | and he died after much suffering. | zvanted their demands for a 15 per|struck this afternoon, disagreeing |creased rapidly during the month of | “opened right wrist. Lost blood. Not soverning factor in restoring the!on German concentration points. T initiative to the aliied forces. Plans are therefore taking shape rap'dly at the war department to accelerate and iannouncemem is made in the official communication issued by the war of- fice tonight. Dr. Sanford was 25 vears old, a| graduate of Sheffield Scientific school. | His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sarfard of Hamden, nt. advance or submitted it to ar- bitration, the union would order out all organized labor emploved in tex- tile industries ip fiis ctata with the company over interpretation of a decision of the National Labor War Board on the payment of bo- nuses. . July, with the result that the total value of these securities placed to reached $447,820,970, the treasury department today mgounced. date have enough. Must try again” The man's right wrist was slashed and bandaged. There wae nothing to imdicate the cause of the suicide. 4